Meanings
comparative more enhanced · superlative most enhanced
- In a version or form that has been improved or made better than some other standard form.
- Raised up, amplified.
1 more example
The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.
1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 479 - euphemisticbodybuildingHaving suffered the use of anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
Big, enhanced mass monsters that tremble the ground they walk on, lift tons (literally), and get winded going up a flight of stairs. Of course, there are other areas of the sport such as natural bodybuilders, physique competitors, and pro and amateur levels of contests.
2020 September 3, Brad Borland, “Bodybuilding 101: Sculpting a Powerful Physique”, in Breaking MusclesAntonyms: natural
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of enhance
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving suffered the use of anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveincreased or intensified in value or beauty or quality
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian повишен
- повишен (povišen)raised up
Czech nadstandardní, zesílený
- nadstandardníimproved
- zesílenýraised up
Dutch versterkt vermeerderd, benadrukt
- versterkt vermeerderdimproved
- benadruktimproved
Finnish paranneltu, korostettu
- paranneltuimproved
- korostetturaised up
- tehostettubodybuilding: affected by PEDs
French avancé, amplifié
- avancéimproved
- amplifiéraised up
- rehausséraised up
German verstärkt, unterstützend
- verstärktimproved
- unterstützendbodybuilding: affected by PEDs
- unterstütztbodybuilding: affected by PEDs
Greek βελτιωμένος
- βελτιωμένος (veltioménos)improved
Italian avanzato, amplificato
- avanzatoimproved
- amplificatoraised up
Polish ulepszony, powiększony
- ulepszonyimproved
- powiększonyraised up
- na sterydachbodybuilding: affected by PEDs
Portuguese melhorado, aprimorado
- melhoradoimproved
- aprimoradoimproved
- ampliadoraised up
Spanish mejorado, amplificado
- mejoradoimproved
- amplificadoraised up
Turkish geliştirilmiş, artan
- geliştirilmişimproved
- artanraised up
Cite this entry
enhanced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhanced
“enhanced.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhanced. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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